mircea_popescu: toxic either because it is a grass < toxic, either - being a grass and all.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "genes Monsanto claims title travels" << claims title to ?

mircea_popescu: incidentally i have nfi how that worked so well for the weeds. pretty impressive.

mircea_popescu: nice qntra btw. and yes monsanto is fucked - the projections were for weed resistance to appear in centuries. it showed up within a coupla short decades. this puts the practical utility of their "genetic research" in serious doubt. in fact they've closed down most "general" projects, focusing on a coupla more promising line, after which it's ~the end.

mircea_popescu: you know thinking about it... each irc channel is like whatever, a guy walking down the street. maybe carrying a bag of groceries or a skateboard or w/e.

mircea_popescu: its announced presence has rearranged my head, it's really the correct solution for the long sought for job market thing.

mircea_popescu can't wait for mod6 's t now :D

mircea_popescu: crypto goes in, poetry goes out. no fucking law against poetry, is there.

mircea_popescu: actually come to think of it, someone should write code to turn standard base64 (like comes out of pgp armor etc) into text. have a nice markov-based state machine with a large-ish dictionary and a syntax/grammar checker.

mircea_popescu: by the time this is actually needed, all that'll be about as interesting as soviet rubles.

mircea_popescu: in truth, if we end up that stretched there's prolly going to be some adjustments made. like - daily blocks.

mircea_popescu: the way the world's going, you might end up using that skillset for reals.

mircea_popescu: for the record : all the various german terms, funkmeister, funkspielen, etc, are derived off how you say radioing in german, ie, funk (hence telefunken). the reason it's called "spark" is because they needed a name back when sparkgap was the way. and so...

mircea_popescu: turning into quite teh qntra funkmeister over there, huh shinohai ?

mircea_popescu: with any luck, it happens young. like for instance through the age-old process of, orcs come through rampaging village, rape everyone, surviving kid is faced with the cold, sad truth that "if those assholes were any good, they'd be still alive".

mircea_popescu: it's a sad day in any man's life, when he's squeezed into admitting that personal connection be damned, incompetence and malice aren't usefully distinguishable.

mircea_popescu: aite then.

mircea_popescu: what type of tea do you want ?

mircea_popescu: apparently that great dream of that (other) great ustardian dreamer (pres. bahamas) is taking shape : the great illumination of africa!

mircea_popescu: "Are you a business man/woman or an ARTISTS,POLITICIANS,PASTOR,ENGINEER,DOCTOR, STUDENTS, GRADUATED and you want to become Rich Powerful and famous, in life or,Are you frustrated in life. What type of wealth do you want? Today is your luckiest day, 'I want to join great Illuminati occult in Nigeria' we are here for those of you that want to join Illuminati Brotherhood in Nigeria and across Africa."

mircea_popescu: Framedragger much like many many stupiud people use tor.

mircea_popescu: ^ testament of every "computer programmer" of the "modern computing" school ever.

mircea_popescu: et of life, be it something to wear, something to eat ... It's all been wrong."

mircea_popescu: "Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but ... I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every fac

mircea_popescu: where's that costanza line...

mircea_popescu: oh ok, so changed 16^64 to 10^64 and the "generate entropy in the shape of floating point number" thing clearly indicate these fellows are windows programmers with a strong javascript focus. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "The bug that lasted 347 days was the confusion between a string and an array of integers. This made the ECC private keys ridiculously small because they passed a string of decimal digits into a function expecting an array of 17, 15 bit integers." ahaha ok that's pretty good.

mircea_popescu: Framedragger github references in that article are of course gone. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: there were dozens of people who lived very much the 90s academic conference circus.

mircea_popescu: do west germany twice that, and then there's all the eastern yurp countries.

mircea_popescu: no, profs with a penchant for getting their penis and gullet well oiled.

mircea_popescu: stay a week or two, come back.

mircea_popescu: what escape dood. go visit paris 7-8 times a decade.

mircea_popescu: obviously not all these could be spies, for the fucking obvious reason.

mircea_popescu: yet scores of academics ran the "friendly" gamut. socialistoid france particularly.

mircea_popescu: i suspect this interpolation is correct only up to a point, and what;s interesting happens long after that inflexion.

mircea_popescu: i took "temperament" to stand as proxy of general human quality.

mircea_popescu: rank being muchly a matter of temperament.

mircea_popescu: if dean was more the family type... meh.

mircea_popescu: if dean was the cosmopolitan type he could do what sane men do : stay at gf's in paris.

mircea_popescu: about as successful as their homologues over at chernobyl

mircea_popescu: ~the research side of the fed. trying to keep the economy from blowing up.

mircea_popescu: institute for this or the other, i forget.

mircea_popescu: the planning thing

mircea_popescu: i think its purpose was to feed some semblance of usable rw data into the research center of w/e it was called

mircea_popescu: of course, houses were ~never sold. they were given. either by inca to plebs, or else by non-plebs to non-plebs by inca dispensation.

mircea_popescu: generally the end of national empires is bad news for the locals.

mircea_popescu: and the end of the british empire was to orwell's.

mircea_popescu: hey, best type of flour. 000.